I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.
We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.
My dad used to build computers for the U.S. government, for military intelligence. So he always had computers around the house.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.
I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.